Seneca the Younger Quotes - Page 4

• Whatever begins, also ends.

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  Time, Ends, End Times

  "Seneca's Consolations". Book by Seneca the Younger, 40–45 AD..

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• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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  Motivational, Caring, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

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  Stars, Latin, History

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• Let us say what we feel, and feel what we say; let speech harmonize with life.

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  Life, Speech, Feels

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• It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Laughter

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing is ours except time.

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  Time, Acceptance, Time Management

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• No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

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  Freedom, Men, Flesh

  "Epistolæ Ad Lucilium", XCII in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 294-296), 1922.

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• It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

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  Inspirational, Success, Uplifting

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXIV)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

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• It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

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  Errors, Too Late, Way

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• No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

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  Happy Life, Reflection, Roots

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

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  War, Eye, Men

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• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

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  Greatness, Men, Temptation

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• As long as you live, learn how to live.

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  Long

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• No man ever became wise by chance.

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  Wise, Men, Chance

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• A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.

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  Firsts, Steps, Action

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• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

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  Philosophy, Fall, Arrows

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• The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

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  Consistency, Deeds

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• No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

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  Character, Long, Lapses

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• He, who will not pardon others, must not himself expect pardon.

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  Pardon

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• No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

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  Hate, Hatred, Despise

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• To govern was to serve, not to rule.

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  Love, Leadership

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• Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

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  Words Of Wisdom, Speech, Should

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• Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

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  Depressing, Mind, Quality

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• Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

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  Men, Long, Care

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter XXII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• There exists no more difficult art than living.

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  Art, Difficult

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